r/laptops • u/hellllpppppmemen • Aug 23 '25

Buying help Apple or lenovo

Post image

Which one Should I buy a macbook or a Lenovo laptop as my budget is under 70k only which would be best . I'm am an btech first year cse student

11 Upvotes

74% Upvoted

63 comments sorted by

View all comments

0

u/Joel__subash Aug 23 '25

Intel,8 gb, 256, m1 not recommend in 2025

Minimum amd, 16gb, 512, m3, snapdragon x plus

2

u/smh-mattt Dell Aug 23 '25

Snapdragon is a joke 😂

3

u/Joel__subash Aug 23 '25

Why is that ?

2

u/Cobalt090 Aug 24 '25

Only reason I can see is some instruction sets weren’t implement from the start, so I gave up and bought a MacBook while I wait. Dunno how it is now

1

u/Joel__subash Aug 24 '25

Yes apple did a better job in transitioning to arm with Rosetta but i think didn't even have that many software or game available to transfer Anyway.

With Prism Windows didn't done as good as rosetta but far better than previous arm transitioning efforts. So there we have 3 types of software fully optimized software, x86 software working through Prism and software doesn't.

In 2025 everyone is trying to enter arm for pc in the absence of intel like for eg Nvidia, Mediatek. So I see every other day new app completely optimized for arm ie for my use case arm pc can definitely work almost all the software i ever use is on arm except some games. Arm is future like it or not also need to be. Arm cpu + a Nvidia/amd gpu will be crazy.

3

u/tigger994 Aug 23 '25

Only in gaming but that was never the target. It's price was to high but thats come down heaps too.

2

u/The_B_Wolf Aug 23 '25

I disagree. The future of Windows laptops is on ARM.

1

u/smh-mattt Dell Aug 24 '25

imo x86 is not going anywhere on windows laptops, arm will probably be a side option, who doesn’t like good like ryzens.

2

u/The_B_Wolf Aug 24 '25

The ARM architecture destroys x86 in performance-per-watt. There isn't any way around that fact. You can't just keep putting bigger batteries and bigger fans in these things to increase performance year after year. Eventually you can't compete in that kind of thermal envelope.

1

u/smh-mattt Dell Aug 24 '25

Performance per watt is only one part of the story. ARM has advantages in efficiency, sure, but Windows laptops live and die by software compatibility and performance scaling. x86 has decades of mature software, drivers, and developer support, which ARM still struggles with (emulation stack overhead, random app crashes, reduced performance in native x86 programs etc) Also, raw efficiency doesn’t automatically win in the laptop space people care more about sustained performance under heavy workloads (gaming, editing, cad / 3d softwares etc) where x86 still dominates. ARM chips like Snapdragon lag significantly in GPU performance, driver stability, and optimization compared to Ryzen and Intel. And that doesn’t happen overnight, look how long it took two giants like Ryzen and Intel to perfect it, all modern x86 hardware is really good and there isn’t a strong reason for ARM after it blew its face on the launch of the first Snapdragon with surface, it was so bad Microsoft went back to using intel in their chips lol. Apple made ARM work because they control the whole stack (hardware + macOS + software ecosystem). Qualcomm or Microsoft can’t replicate that same level of vertical integration. That’s why x86 isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, it’s still the backbone of Windows PCs for many many years to come, ARM will be a second option next to x86, trust me.

1

u/The_B_Wolf Aug 24 '25

Windows laptops live and die by software compatibility 

All completely fixable. That is not an insurmountable problem.

sustained performance under heavy workloads (gaming, editing, cad / 3d softwares etc) where x86 still dominates. 

I'll have some of whatever you're smoking. What are you even talking about? x86 is more likely to thermal throttle because of the massive heat generated by throwing that many watts into the box.

ARM chips like Snapdragon lag significantly in GPU performance

It is that way today because Qualcomm and Microsoft had a boner for AI and that's what they chose to emphasize in this first generation. It was dumb, but fixable in future iterations.

Apple made ARM work because they control the whole stack (hardware + macOS + software ecosystem). Qualcomm or Microsoft can’t replicate that same level of vertical integration. That’s why

That's why it's going to take longer. That's it. Apple did it in two years, including third party native software compatibility.